Birmingham Metropolis’s house owners have accomplished the acquisition of the ladies’s group, with England and Blues legend Karen Carney a part of a number of unbiased buyers concerned within the deal.
Shelby Corporations Restricted (SCL) are a subsidiary of Knighthead Capital Administration – an funding agency co-founded by Blues chairman Tom Wagner.
They purchased a controlling share of the Championship membership in July 2023 earlier than rising that to a full takeover last November.
They’ve now acquired a 97% stake within the ladies’s facet.
The remaining 3% has been taken up by a bunch of “outstanding feminine enterprise leaders and international skilled sporting icons” together with 144-cap Carney and three-time US Open tennis champion Kim Clijsters.
In a statement,, external the membership stated the deal “will elevate the concentrate on the ladies’s group” and “ship on the said ambition to compete on the highest ranges within the ladies’s sport”.
They added there can be “no fast adjustments to staffing or soccer operations” following the takeover.
